French composer Leo Arnaud is most remembered for the Olympic theme song "Bugler’s Dream." After a career in Hollywood, he retired and was buried in Yadkin County. GERMANY TODAY, SO LOTS GOING ON AND ...

If you’ve tuned into a broadcast of the Olympics in the past 25 years, you certainly have heard the famous theme song that goes with the Games. But do you know the history behind the iconic timpani ...

Actively engage with international, translated fiction. Recognize and explain the significance of some aspects of Japanese culture and geography. Evaluate legacies of the 1964 and the 2020 Tokyo ...

It was the portion of the Opening Ceremony that many were talking about, and no, it wasn’t the lighting of the torch. Toward the end of Friday’s ceremony to open the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the ...

Tokyo — Blogger and author Roy Tomizawa hails from Queens, N.Y., but his spiritual home is the Komazawa Olympic Park in western Tokyo. It is the site of a remarkable chapter in Japanese history: The ...

TOKYO, Japan — It hasn’t been an easy road hosting the 2020 delayed Summer Olympics and it’s not the first time Japan has been a host country to the summer games. Japan last held the games in 1964.

The Olympic rings on display for the games opening ceremony in Tokyo were created using trees planted by athletes at the 1964 Games. DYLAN MARTINEZ/POOL/AFP via Getty Images The Olympic rings on ...